Make worship a priority during Lent:

Saturdays, 5:00 pm at HTLoop (and on Zoom)

Sundays, 9:30 am at HTLakeview (and on YouTube)

Wednesdays, 9:30 am at HTLakeview

Wednesdays, 8:00 pm on Zoom, Compline (brief service for the end of the day)

Join on Zoom
Meeting ID: 200 920 453
Passcode: 068508

Daily Readings for Lent

Living Well Through Lent (pdf)

Sundays in Lent: The Heart of Christianity

Six sessions
February 18; March 3, 17 and 24 — 10:45 am - noon
February 25; March 10 — 6:30 - 7:45 pm
Held at HTLakeview and on Zoom.

Christianity is declining in North America. If you have struggled with intellectual obstacles to your faith, this Lenten series is for you. We will read Marcus Borg’s classic The Heart of Christianity, in which the author discusses the essence of Christianity from a progressive, open-minded and open-hearted perspective. Pastor Mueller will lead most of the sessions as we consider topics such as God, Jesus, the Bible, faith, being born again, sin, and sacraments.

Borg shows how faith in God and Jesus has never really been about believing certain propositions but rather about a dynamic relationship. He shows that being “born again” is at the center of Christian life and that the “kingdom of God” is a matter of transforming society into real world values of justice and love. And that the Christian life is essentially about opening one’s heart—to God and to others.

Please order your own books. Amazon offers new books for under $10, and AbeBooks and other sellers offer used books for under $5.

Wednesdays in Lent: Honoring the Body

February 21 - March 20 (five sessions)

10:00 am - HTLakeview and on Zoom.
Preceded by a brief eucharist at 9:30 am

Zoom link for 10:00 am study
Meeting ID: 819 9257 6595
Passcode: 670150

7:00 pm - Zoom only
Concluded with a brief Lenten liturgy (Compline) at 8:00 pm. You are welcome to join any Wednesday at 8:00 pm even if you did not participate in the study.

Zoom link for 7:00 pm study
Meeting ID: 200 920 453
Passcode: 068508

Click here for a preview of the first two chapters.

Though our topic is the body, our evening session will be on Zoom so we can include as many participants as possible. It is helpful to purchase and to read the book, but the conversations will be broad enough to participate without preparation as well.

Honoring the Body was published in 2002 and re-released by Fortress Press in 2019. New, used and Kindle copies are available at a variety of price points. 

In Honoring the Body, Stephanie Paulsell speaks to those who have ever wondered how to celebrate the body's pleasures and protect the body's vulnerabilities in a world that seems confused about both. What we need, she shows, are practices that honor the body.

Paulsell invites readers to explore how we might honor the body in daily activities--bathing, clothing, eating, working, exercising, loving, and suffering--seeking wisdom from Scripture, history, and contemporary experience, in story and song and poetry.

She argues that the accumulated wisdom of religious traditions provides the resources for a rich practice of honoring the body. This practice will not be just an individual practice, however. It will be a shared, communal practice, one we engage in with others.

Honoring the Body is for those who want to honor their body and the bodies of others, who wish for a community that cherishes, attends to, celebrates, and soothes the body.

The conversation will be led by Pr. Craig Mueller.